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Pan, fauns, and satyrs; bipedal goat/human or deer/human beings; traditional symbols of wine, sex, nature, and music, especially pipes and flutes. The ancestors of the Christian picture of devils, due to the cult of Pan, which sent them into a panic. No really, that's where the word comes from...

Dream-fauns aren't all Classical, though. At least half these dreams feature female fauns, not males; and both sexes seem taller and more graceful than "goat-legs" suggests (close to 2m (7') in a couple of dreams); often they sport longer tails for better balance up on those stiltlike legs, too. All in all, dream-fauns seem to be a biological what-if experiment: could digitigrade legs (where the anatomical equivalent of the heel never touches down) support a bipedal creature, or is it too wobbly, is a plantigrade foot (human, heel-down) necessary? Of course dreams of such creatures may have other meanings, but many of mine do play with this idea of balance, of reaching higher precisely because one has an animal foundation!

Still, taken as a group, there's a basic sexiness and lack of inhibition that the ancient Mediterranean people would have recognized as, uh, pardon the adjective, satyrical.

RELATED TOPICS: gods and goddesses - animal people - sexy creatures - local spirits (dryads, water-spirits, etc) - deer people - unicorn dreams - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	ALL THUMBS: by Wayan; 2022/9/27, a poem of an awkward dream I've gotten used to the second penis I grew, though it limits who'll want me. But this morning I woke with a third. And am I sure the sprouting's done? CAUTION: HORNY
	AMBIVALENT? NO! (YES!): by Wayan; 1990/1/3. Digital panorama of dreamselves over a lifetime. A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters... CAUTION: CARTOON SEX
	ANSWERING JUNG: by Wayan; 2005/7/5, a dream parodying one of Jung's key dreams After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw & bring to life with my literally magic marker... CAUTION: NUDE STATUES
	CAMERA STRIKE: by Wayan, 1996/10/19, a dream within a dream with a point. I dream I'm a lemur-girl in an emotional maze. I wake to find I'm really a satyr cartoonist. Funny, we have a lot in common! I wake to find... CAUTION: PHALLIC SATYRE
	A CENTAUR SPLITS: by Wayan; 1988/1/12, a Gestalt dream. A centaur divorces, into a unicorn and an unfinished faun-girl, who argue "Forward!" "Not ready!"... CAUTION: TRANSPARENT BREASTS
	DRAGONFLY BUS: by Wayan, 2023/3/28; four dreams on halting runaway feelings A girl writes a whole movie to get a shy boy to hold her; I stupidly summon a monster dragonfly-bus; a devil-suited jerk hogs a musical's stage TWICE; leeches crawl from the treasure-box I opened... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, SEXUAL FEAR/GUILT
	FAUNS: by Wayan; 1994/9/9 dream prompted 5 dream-portraits. A group of coolly shameless fauns started teaching me outrageousness in my dreams... CAUTION: FAUNS LACK INCEST TABOOS
	FAWN AND DEMON: by Wayan; 1990/7/15, twin dreams of desire. A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear... Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom... CAUTION: SEX
	FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
	THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 1994/4/13, a mytho-musical dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
	RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
	SATYR: by Wayan; 1999/4/1, a frustrating wish-fulfillment dream (yes, both). I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change... CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
	SATYR AND TWILIGHT: by Wayan; 2018/9/1, an epic dream perhaps foreseeing the pandemic A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before... CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
	SAVANNAD: by Wayan; before 1998/8/11; digital sketch of recurring dream figure. A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills... CAUTION: NUDITY
	STILL DWARFED: by Wayan; 1991/5/31, digital portrait of dream-self vs. body-image. When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me? CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM
	THE SWEET WALL: by Wayan; 2011/5/8, a charming but mysterious dream vignette A lonely little girl plays on a swing in her yard. A shy young faun or satyr who has a crush on her conjures up a strange gift: a translucent wall of candy...
	TEMENOS: by Wayan; 1997/6/17, a psychic dream. I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species... CAUTION: THIS 'TEMENOS' IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
	TWO PLANES: by Wayan, 1994/9/6, a multistaged psychic dream. An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. Flee? Fight? I'm a peaceful hobbit who'd rather be playing Frisbee with the dryads...
	UNICORN ORGY: by Wayan; sculpture group based on 1995/4/22 dream, finished 2004/3/30; 1' tall. A sculpted orgy of unicorns, dryads, and werewolf-satyrs designed to stand sideways on your wall... CAUTION: SEX
	WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY
	WE MEET IN DREAMS: by Katie Hofgard; 2005?, a dream-portrait I only meet my wolf-soulmate in recurrent dreams... CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
	A WRITER'S MUSE: by Wayan, 1996/12/7, a dreamfable on creativity. A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse? CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS...